General issues of public international law, with a particular focus on law of the sea and international institutional law. Geographic focus on the Polar Regions, especially Norway’s maritime areas. Current substantive research foci include the role of courts and tribunals in the law of the sea, the establishment of maritime limits and boundaries, the role of expert regimes in international law and the Svalbard Treaty.
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Routledge, 2022, 298 p.
Fagbokforlaget, 2020, 300 p. In Norwegian.
In Virginie Tassin (ed), Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea. Routledge, 2023, Chapter III.1, 14 p.
In Helene Ruiz Fabr (ed), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford University Press, 2023, 18 p.
In Østhagen (ed), Norway's Arctic Policy: Geopolitics, Security and Identity in the High North. Edward Elgar, 2023, pp. 77-94
Chapter 1 In Nele Matz-Lück, Øystein Jensen and Elise Johansen (eds), The Law of the Sea: Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes. Routledge, 2022, 13 p.
The Polar Journal, published online 07.04.2022. DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2022.2062557
FNI-rapport 7/2024. Lysaker, FNI, 2024, 55 p. In Norwegian.
Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol 14, 2023, pp. 83-85.
Forskning.no, January 31, 2023. In Norwegian.
Dagens Næringsliv, Januar 24, 2023. In Norwegian.
Aftenposten, January 24, 2023. In Norwegian.
NRK Troms & Finnmark, April 25, 2025. In Norwegian.
NRK Studio2 (radio), May 23, 2024. In Norwegian.
Der Standard, March 23, 2023. In German.
Taiwan TV News Network/ Yahoo! News Taiwan, March 21, 2023. In Chinese.
High North News, March 20, 2023.
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
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